Memo to Shaq: Charles Barkley calls Raptors-76ers a ‘seven-game series now’

After the visiting Raptors dominated the 76ers in a 103-88 win on Monday to force a Game 6 back in Toronto, 11-time NBA All-Star and NBA on TNT host Charles Barkley had a few words for Philadelphia fans hoping to clinch.

“Well they’ve (the 76ers) got no chance of winning Thursday, it’s a seven-game series now,” said Barkley. “Toronto, the way they played tonight, they think they are going to win the series.”

Suffering their largest loss at home in a playoff game since 2012, the 76ers have now dropped back-to-back contests against the Raptors after winning the first three games of the series.

Previously, fellow NBA on TNT host Shaquille O’Neal had stated “Toronto’s getting swept” on the show after Ernie Johnson Jr. and Barkley had said that the series was going to be a battle.

No team in history has ever overcome a 3-0 deficit in the NBA playoffs.